Group theory in the bedroom and other mathematical diversions
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Published: |
Hill and Wang,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2008. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 269 p.: ill., map ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780809052196 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0809052199 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | N |
CLC: |
N O152 |
Call Number: | N/H417 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index. Clock of ages -- Random resources -- Follow the money -- Inventing the genetic code -- Statistics of deadly quarrels -- Dividing the continent -- On the teeth of wheels -- The easiest hard problem -- Naming names -- Third base -- Identity crisis -- Group theory in the bedroom. |